Mojang confirms upcoming native PS5 upgrade for Minecraft

Despite being almost 4 years old now, the PlayStation 5 has yet to get a native version of Minecraft – with the Series X only having received its own upgrade recently. That said, the team have now finally confirmed and spoken on their plans for a free native PS5 upgrade; one that is hopefully more substantive than the current preview release.

As part of a lengthy blog post detailing all their plans for the future of Minecraft, Mojang offered a brief entry on their intentions for the PlayStation 5, saying “Right now, we’re also working on bringing a native version of Minecraft to the PlayStation 5 – because Minecraft is better when friends can play together on whichever device they want.”

As mentioned, you can currently get a native PS5 version of Minecraft if you are signed up for the preview builds. That said, this release offers little in the way of major improvements, simply increasing the render distance from 28 to 36 chunks.

So, while we still have no official release date for this upgrade, at least Mojang are willing to openly talk about it more. Hopefully the ray-tracing upgrade is also currently in the works.

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